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Acknowledgments

R.M.P. and A.C.B. conducted the study. E.E.A. developed the research questions for secondary analyses, analyzed the data, and wrote the article. C.D.S, A.C.B., and R.M.P. assisted in writing. All authors contributed to the study design, interpretation of data, and approved the final manuscript. The authors have no financial gain related to the outcome of this research, and there are no potential conflicts of interest. This project was supported by funding from the Institute for Population Sciences, Health Assessment, Administration, Services, and Economics (INPHAASE) to A.C.B. and R.M.P. and National Institutes of Mental Health (T32MHI5750) postdoctoral fellowship to E.E.A. We thank the participants in this study for contributing to this research and increasing our knowledge about the experiences of African American pregnant women. We acknowledge the support of the research team members, Dayna Johnson, Project Manager, Henry Ford Hospital Department of Public Health Sciences and Christine Wells, Ph.D., Statistician, UCLA Statistical Consulting Group. We also thank Judith E. Carroll, Ph.D. of the UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior and the Dunkel Schetter lab for consultation in this work.